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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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1. The term is also used for the language now called Old English - spoken and written by the ________ and their descendants in much of what is now England and some of southeastern Scotland between at least the mid-5th century and the mid-12th century.






2. Given normal hearing - the ability to understand spoken language in a meaningful way.






3. Multisensory Structured Language






4. A letter or a group of letters attached to the beginning or ending of a base word or root that creates a derivative with a meaning or grammatical form that is different that the base word or root.






5. One of a class of speech sounds in which sound moving through the vocal tract is constricted or obstructed by the lips - tongue or teeth during articulation.






6. Use - pictures - charts - maps - graphs - etc...clear view of teacher - color to highlight important text - ask teacher to provide handouts - illustrate ideas as pictures before writing them down - use multi media






7. Is a specific learning disability that is neurological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities. These difficulties typically result from a deficit in the






8. Vowel - consonant - e syllable






9. Involve at least two people. It includes the ability to maintain eye contact - understand body language of others - take turns in a conversation - stick to the subject - and use oral language appropriate for the situation.






10. State Law. Requires testing - Requires that students enrolled in public schools be tested for dyslexia. - Requires treatment (teaching)






11. A group of several test standardized on the same sample population so that results on the several tests are comparable. Example : School achievement tests






12. Students proceed trough predictable stages of learning to reading.

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13. Teutonic invasion and settlement - The Christianizing of Britain - The creation of a national English culture - Danish-English warfare - Political adjustment and cultural assimilation and the decline of Old English as a result of The Norman Conquest.






14. Participate in classroom discussions - make speeches/presentations - use tape records during lectures - read text out loud - create musical jingles - create mnemonics to aid memorization - discuss ideas verbally






15. Anglo-Saxon - Latin - Greek






16. A districts dyslexia program is considered part of the basic - required curriculum. Therefore - state compensatory education funds can only be used to provide programs - projects - activities - and materials that supplement that district's regular dy






17. A syllable ending with one or more consonants. The vowel is usually short.






18. Proceeds from the part to the whole.Reading is driven by the text. Emphasizes the written or printed text. Flesch - Gough - LaBerge and Samuels.






19. Multisensory Structured Language Education






20. 1930 - Psychologist and teacher in New York; along with Samuel T. Orton at Columbia University - developed a non-traditional approach to teaching written language skills. Trained one teacher at a time. began working with Sally Childs and trained 50 t






21. MSLE instruction requires that organization on material follow the logical order of the language. Sequence must begin with the easiest and progress to more difficult material. Each step must be based on prior knowledge.






22. Open syllable






23. Gray Oral Reading Test-Fourth Edition Screening test. Provides an efficient and objective measure of growth in oral reading and an aid in the diagnosis of oral reading difficulties Standard Scores - Percentile Ranks - Grade Equivalents - Age Equivale






24. Final stable syllable

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25. Screening test. Elementary age only. Asks test taker to name the letters of the alphabet






26. Aspect of language concerned with meaning. Curriculum should include comprehension of written language.






27. Response to Intervention - a multi-step or tiered approach to providing services and interventions at increasing intensity to students or an entire class.






28. A class of open speech sounds produced by the easy passage of air through a relatively open vocal tract. A - E - I - O - U






29. Nationally known for research on both the prevention and remediation of reading difficulties in young children as well as work on assessment of phonological awareness and reading






30. Closed syllable - open syllable - vowel- consonant-e - r controlled syllable - vowel team - final stable syllable






31. Whole body learning






32. The teacher musts be adept at individualized teaching based on continual assessment of the student's needs. Content should be mastered to a level of automaticity.






33. The curved line placed beneath c to indicate its "soft" or (s) pronunciation - as opposed to its hard or (k) pronunciation. Students use the coding on c before the letters e - i - or y (the softeners) - to remind themselves to pronounced the (s) soun






34. Two vowels standing adjacent in the same syllable whose sounds blend smoothly together in one syllable. There are only four diphthongs in English. These are ou/out - ow/cow - oi/oil - oy - boy






35. Selective focus on what is important while screening out distractions.






36. A test in which the results can be used to determine a student's progress toward mastery of a content area. performance is compared to an expected level of mastery in a content area rather that to other student's scores. Such tests usually include qu






37. Reading can be learned as naturally as speaking - reading is focused on constructing meaning from texts using children's books rather than basal or controlled readers - reading is best learned in the context of the group - phonics is taught indirectl






38. The number of words a student can read correctly in a given period of time.






39. A significant unit of visual shape. We use the visual shape as to cover not only writing - but also any other shape perceived by the eye which is a visible representation of a unit of speech. A single graphic letter or letter cluster which represents






40. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test






41. A pattern of letters (found in a single syllable) which occurs frequently together. The pronunciation of at least one of the component parts is unexpected or the letters stand in an unexpected sequence ( ar - er - ir - or - us - qu - wh)






42. The number of words which a reader can translate meaningfully in a given period of time






43. Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic/Tactile






44. A step taken by school personnel to determine which students are at risk for not meeting grade level standards.






45. Behaving without thinking about possible consequences. May act or speak without first thinking about how their behavior might make other people react of feel






46. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"






47. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development

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48. Teaching that uses all learning pathways in the brain (VAK-T) simultaneously in order to enhance memory and learning.






49. The ability to organize thoughts and express them verbally to convey meaning to others






50. International Multisensory Structured Education Council